Finished product....but look below at what I started with.....
All of the flat sheets of glass I used.
These photos show all of the individual glass gems, squares and rectangles I also foiled and soldered to create the design. The colors the customer chose were green, teal, turquoise, gold, white and clear glass.
I usually work out in my bus/studio to cut and draw the big designs. I took the old antique frame with me and as I cut the glass pieces I laid them in the squares. 
I thought I would try and hang these lead crystals in the centers of each window pane. A great idea but structurally that didn't work out. The overall design looked better when the lines went all in one direction instead of the break in the middle.
After I had cut the first batch of glass shapes, I realized I needed more. The copper foil on the right is what I used to put around every edge of every piece, then later I come back with the wooden fid to smooth out all the edges of the copper foil. 
This is what the glass looked like with the copper foiling on the edges. I coat each piece now with flux and after that is when I start to melt the metal. The flux helps the metal adhere to each glass piece.
After I had soldered all the pieces in each window pane I went back later with a small paintbrush and painted a black patina on ever single solder line on every single glass piece.
Morning sun coming through from the south......
The pattern of the plaid curtains in the customer's home ran horizontal and the thick white blinds in all her windows ran horizontal so I created a horizontal design that would flow with everything else in that living area.
It looks different at every angle as the sun reflects through the glass. In the direct sunlight the colors of teal, green and turquoise boldly light the room. At night with the living room lights reflecting off of the glass enable the clear glass pieces to glisten. The clear glass I chose for this design had a texture of ripples throughout. I made sure when I cut the glass that the ripple pattern in the glass went horizontal, like everything else. 
A fifteen minute drive from Redding, California. A gorgeous lake hidden in the mountains. Camping, sailing, boating, fishing, hiking. It can all be done here. Again, this is a short trip from the city.
We could not believe how big this tree was. What would be it like to live inside a tiny little house underneath one big gigantic tree? 
Painted sign on a big pine tree near the labyrinth.
Each person who enters the Labyrinth can say a prayer as they walk within the circled path and then put something at the end of the circle as they exit out to keep the circles growing wider and wider. The people and prayers grow the Labyrinth. I want to start one at my home this next year.
What a beautiful site. I was standing on a bridge when I took the photo. It was interesting to see how these men worked their fly rods as their boat floated a long with the current in the river. Like a dance they would walk up and down the boat switching sides and bending their knees to get/give balance when the boat began to rock. All this while never dropping the focus on what they 
What beauty!
Snow dusted the mountains and windmills span.
Peeking over the top.
A few on a top ridge photographed from behind.
We drove through these mountains soon after we left Bakersfield, California. What a site to see these windmills all over the mountains, spinning to create energy. They weren't placed just anywhere but on selected ridges and curves to catch the current of the winds. I liked to look at the different ways they were placed in the mountains in relation to what directions the wind blew. Some were large windmills placed high up on mountaintops and smaller windmills were placed down deeper in the ridges.
This image was difficult to capture. As we were entering onto the freeway you could see the green lush grass, then further beyond there were orchards and grape vines that went for miles and miles and miles. Near Stockton, Bakersfield, and Modesto you could see rows and rows of almond trees, orange trees, mandarin trees and lemon trees. 
Do you see the train tunnel?
Train track wedged into the side of the mountain.
Another train tunnel.
Someone likes to hunt. When we got out of the Tehachape Mountains we stopped in the town of Tehachape to fill up with gas. The town is small and located right near the bottom as we exited out on the east side of the mountain pass. This store was filled with trophies like this. They were all over the store. I had not seen this before in a convenience store. Interesting and different. Just click on the arrow located on the bottom left hand side of the image.
I took this video of us driving through Flagstaff. It was getting colder and colder. It was beautiful though and the snow made me think of Christmas, the holidays, and how I did not want them to end.
Just had to take this photo and add it to my blog. Jim seemed like he was in a trance, but he safely drove twelve hours on the second day. Our goal was to get to Albuquerque, New Mexico and we did.
Pongo is sixteen years old and turn seventeen in May. What a hearty little dog he is with such a strong will to live. Look at the little orange velour jacket I bought for him in California. He is probably thinking - "WHEN can I get out of this thing"?
Still looking and watching.
Ahhhhh.
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